Gold leaf and graphite on heavy cartridge. A comment on body positivity. Your body is beautiful, don't change yourself to fit someone else's idea of beauty.
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Monday, 21 October 2013
Mandala rose mandala rose...
A tattoo design for George, incorporating dot work mandala sections and traditional style roses.
...can I have my tattoo apprenticeship now please?
Labels:
commission,
dot work,
dots,
drawing,
flowers,
illustration,
Mandala,
pattern,
rose,
tattoo,
traditional
Tuesday, 3 September 2013
Trade with Ladylockslife Part 1
I use instagram a lot. I find it's a better forum for personal work (despite the copyright and 3rd party issues that arose earlier this year) But also I've found some absolutely amazing creative people to follow. Some really talented bastards. It's really inspirational. I follow quite a few curio/wuderkammer, Taxidermy and entomology instagram accounts. Usually a lot of curio jewellery designers who not only make wonderful jewels but really make the effort to tell their followers about the methods they used to make their jewellery and just general information about their topic of interest. I find that it's a completely different picture sharing site, things tend not to get lost like on tumblr. I haven't started using pinterest yet, but I'm sure I'll be all over that like a rash soon enough. Anyway, I follow a lady called Annie Loucks, of Ladylocks creations and heres her instagram account. She makes some really gorgeous jewellery so I proposed a trade. Here is part one. A little a5 graphite/micron and gold leaf illustration. I'm thinking about doing a bit of a fancy wax seal on it, but might just leave that for the envelope. Also a little preview of my ever expanding personal collection of pretties.
Tuesday, 9 July 2013
More arrows and DPS thoughts.
Here is another little one from the water colour moleskine. This time only using black posca pen and fineliners, with a touch of colour balancing in photoshop. Again with the arrows, girl. As this year at uni has ended and I'm about to embark on a year out for my Diploma in professional studies course, I need to start getting organised, getting a good portfolio together is crucial. I've never thought of myself as a designer, but with some words from my dps tutor, I need to start thinking about how my work translates onto objects and other surfaces other than just a piece of paper or digital file. I'd really like to start doing some larger scale pieces to help free myself up from the constraints of a sketch book. Maybe some more wall and window drawings. Or start thinking about products I can slap my illustrations on. There are so many things I want to experiment with and achieve in the next year, so I thought it best to write a list of things I can hopefully cross off throughout the course. Some things may be easily achievable, but others not so much and will need some serious time and work put in and some may not be achievable in a year but can be ongoing.
So what the hell do I want to do? Here's a couple...
1. Work on branding. Make myself a logo and a website with domain name.
2. Contact Illustration companies in london and Berlin and try an bag those amazing internships that will get me relevant and helpful experience.
3. Get a separate portfolio together and Look for a Tattooing apprenticeship.
4. Learn enough German (to not come across as an ignorant English douche) and go to Berlin and intern, but most importantly enjoy time away from London away, from home and away from my comfort zone and little bubble I've made for myself.
5. Go to New york again on my own.
6. Get a big body of work together, apply for funding and put on a few solo or collaborative exhibitions.
7. Start my own or a collaborative online shop, with tshirts, prints and jewellery.
8. Learn Taxidermy to use in my work. I adore Taxidermy, traditional and Rogue and would love to try combining it with my illustrative style.
9. Create a zine, comic.
10. Have some fucking fun and don't worry so much. Do amazing things. Make some great art.
A nice selection of things to work my way towards during the next year.
I am the arrow, these are the targets. Aim.
Labels:
ambitions,
arrows,
art,
berlin,
drawing,
future,
illustration,
internships,
lozzy bones,
tattoo,
taxidermy,
thoughts
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
DEFRA and Canfield university afternoon project.
6 of us from illustration and visual media at LCC were chosen by our tutor to participate in an afternoon project with DEFRA the government policy makers (department for environment, food and rural affairs) to sit in on various meetings discussing possibilities of what the future might sound/look like, we were asked to contribute visually by illustrating a scenario given to us in teams. I was given the idea of 'a green and pleasant land' which was loosely based around conserving our countryside areas. Here is what I came up with in a few hours. :) enjoyed it thoroughly.
Labels:
art,
DEFRA,
drawing,
environment,
green,
illustration,
noise
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Wallace Collection
Uni project at the Wallace collection, I was assigned the oriental armoury. It housed some seriously gorgeous bits and bobs. Took a fancy to the dagger hilt above and here is my response. Gotta love those cabochon rubies and emeralds.
Sultan!
Labels:
art,
dagger,
drawing,
emeralds,
graphite,
illustration,
india,
indo-persian,
knife,
knives,
man,
mughul,
pen,
persia,
persian,
rubies,
shading,
sultan,
turban,
wallace collection
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Live drawing progress part deux
I finished the room by Thursday last week so it could be up for Friday. I don't think many people really saw it and I'm a bit disappointed I didn't video me creating it. I will definitely do something like this again. 4 walls 4 days and a shit load of posca pens and I'm pretty proud of myself. It was absolutely soul destroying having to paint over it on Monday morning for the next course exhibition.
Labels:
art,
black,
butterflies,
butterfly,
drawing,
exhibition,
girls,
gothic,
illustration,
LCC,
paint,
pen,
posca,
project,
UAL,
university,
white
Monday, 4 February 2013
Live drawing progress!
Shitty picture and I have 4 more walls to do but alright for a few hours work right? Check Shannon and her crazy face!
And Kishan fondling lady face :p
And Kishan fondling lady face :p
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Red hair and butterflies
Thinking about possible ideas for the live drawing project next week, need to decorate the walls with white illustrations. Posca pens? Paint? Chalk? Dunno. I'm thinking lots of curly details, hair texture, roses, moths and butterflies. A wall a day shouldn't be too difficult. Oh and I'm a red head now. Forced Devonrex extraordinaire Viktor von velvet into a picture with me.
Labels:
butterflies,
Cat,
Devon Rex,
doodles,
drawing,
illustration,
moths
Exhibition prep!
Arghhh! So much work, so little time. This year is a big ol' stress. Though despite the feeling like my brain will implode at any second, I'm really enjoying the uni projects at LCC. The set here will be exhibited at our first exhibition as a year this coming week in the well gallery. I worked fucking hard on these, still a bit to do like trimming down and working out placement. Everyone's work looks fantastic. I'm also doing a live drawing project throughout the week in a little black painted, poorly lit and ventilated room in the gallery, it's going to kill me. I'll probably emerge on Friday resembling a slimy humanoid creature from the film 'the descent'. Hopefully it will be videoed. Wish me luck!
Labels:
art,
Artemis,
deer,
design,
draw,
drawing,
exhibition,
gothic,
hades,
Hercules,
illustration,
LCC,
mythology,
nymphs,
pencil,
Persephone,
shading,
stag,
UAL,
university
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
A new style - Mythology and musings
I've really enjoyed working with graphite recently also added a little gold leaf of which I think works really well. Inspired by greek mythology - Ceryneian Hind, Artemis, Hercules and nymphs. The illustrations below will be exhibited at LCC next week! Looking forward to it, have to do 5 more for the exhibition.
Labels:
antlers,
art,
butterfly,
deer,
design,
drawing,
drawings,
gothic,
graphite,
greyscale,
horns,
illustration,
LCC,
lepidopterology,
lozzy bones,
lozzybones,
mythology,
stag,
univer,
water colour
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Slutty Animals!
Labels:
alternative,
art,
big hips,
boobs,
cat woman,
commission,
design,
drawing,
drawings,
fairytale,
fetish,
girl,
goth,
gothic,
greyscale,
illustration,
lozzy bones,
sexy,
vagina
Love through the looking glass...
Labels:
art,
cameo,
camera,
drawing,
greyscale,
illustration,
logo,
looking glass,
lozzy bones,
mirror,
photography,
photoshop,
pretty
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